Where There's Smoke by Ed McBain, Hardcover, 1st Edition

Brand new condition but listed as like new due to a handwritten date on inside front page. Dust jacket in perfect condition. From a non-smoking home.

Synopsis:

Benjamin Smoke is an unlicensed private investigator with a very special preoccupation. Smoke quit the police force three years ago. Why? Boredom. In 24 years he never saw the perfect crime. Benjamin Smoke wants a case he can't solve, a crime so perfectly conceived and executed, he'll know for sure that somewhere out there, there really is a master criminal.

That is why, one Monday morning, he meets Abner Boone, undertaker. Abner Boone has had a most distressing thing happen to him. Someone has pried open his back door--and stolen a corpse. No clues, except for the jagged splinters on the door. No motives to connect the dead body with anyone wishing him ill. No leads of any kind. Smoke feels his hopes begin to rise--especially when the corpse inexplicably reappears the next day. And another body vanishes. There's no sense to it al all, Smoke muses. Wonderful!

Thank you for shopping with us!